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Agronomy, Volume 10, Issue 7

2020 July - 139 articles

Cover Story: Red mango fruit is more resistant to postharvest decay and chilling and is preferred by customers. In this work, we found that exogenous application of phytohormones, such as prohydrojasmon or abscisic acid, in combination with increased exposure to sunlight (pruning) enhanced the red fruit color. Those applications probably induced the phenylpropanoid biosynthesis pathway, leading to more appealing fruit, having only a minor effect on fruit ripening. Therefore, pruning regimes that expose the fruit to sunlight and preharvest treatments with phytohormones or their derivatives can increase the production of secondary metabolites such as flavonols and anthocyanins, enhancing the fruit quality, postharvest life, and fruit health properties. View this paper
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Articles (139)

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,649 Views
14 Pages

Straw Removal Effects on Sugarcane Root System and Stalk Yield

  • Paul L. A. Melo,
  • Maurício R. Cherubin,
  • Tamara C. A. Gomes,
  • Izaias P. Lisboa,
  • Lucas S. Satiro,
  • Carlos E. P. Cerri and
  • Marcos Siqueira-Neto

21 July 2020

The sugarcane (Saccharum spp. L.) mechanical harvesting system leaves a large amount of straw mulch on the soil surface. The straw mulch may affect soil conditions, root regrowth, and sugarcane yield. Thus, this study assessed the response of sugarca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,025 Views
21 Pages

Differences in Metabolic and Physiological Responses between Local and Widespread Grapevine Cultivars under Water Deficit Stress

  • Igor Florez-Sarasa,
  • María José Clemente-Moreno,
  • Josep Cifre,
  • Miquel Capó,
  • Miquel Llompart,
  • Alisdair R. Fernie and
  • Josefina Bota

21 July 2020

Climate change forecasts suggest temperature increases and lower rainfall rates, both of which challenge viticulture, particularly in semi-arid areas where water availability is critical. In this scenario, the use of the genetic variability in grapev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,710 Views
19 Pages

Evaluating Biochar-Microbe Synergies for Improved Growth, Yield of Maize, and Post-Harvest Soil Characteristics in a Semi-Arid Climate

  • Maqshoof Ahmad,
  • Xiukang Wang,
  • Thomas H. Hilger,
  • Muhammad Luqman,
  • Farheen Nazli,
  • Azhar Hussain,
  • Zahir Ahmad Zahir,
  • Muhammad Latif,
  • Qudsia Saeed and
  • Adnan Mustafa
  • + 1 author

21 July 2020

Arid and semi-arid regions are characterized by high temperature and low rainfall, leading to degraded agricultural soils of alkaline calcareous nature with low organic matter contents. Less availability of indigenous nutrients and efficacy of applie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,717 Views
29 Pages

21 July 2020

The cultivation of perennial grasses is one of the most desirable alternatives as energy feedstock, but it is difficult to achieve competitive yields under Mediterranean marginal conditions. The aim of this study was to assess the performance of thre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,987 Views
14 Pages

Synthesis of Dacus Pheromone, 1,7-Dioxaspiro[5.5]Undecane and Its Encapsulation in PLLA Microspheres for Their Potential Use as Controlled Release Devices

  • Stavroula A. Zisopoulou,
  • Christina K. Chatzinikolaou,
  • John K. Gallos,
  • Anna Ofrydopoulou,
  • Dimitra A. Lambropoulou,
  • Eleni Psochia,
  • Dimitrios N. Bikiaris and
  • Stavroula G. Nanaki

21 July 2020

Olive fruit fly Dacus oleae is a well-known pest infecting the bark of olive fruit, leading to reduction of extracted olive oil properties. Among chemicals proposed for Dacus oleae population control, pheromone 1,7-dioxaspiro(5.5)undecane (DSU), Dacu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,982 Views
10 Pages

21 July 2020

The effects of harvest time, 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) and air storage time on the susceptibility of flesh browning in ‘Empire’ apples were studied during a seven-day shelf life period after air storage at 0.5 °C for seven months....

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,066 Views
24 Pages

21 July 2020

The study set out to determine changes in the soil air-water properties, the water-stable aggregate share and organic carbon content as effects of a five-year application of effective microorganisms (EM-A). The hypothesis that long-term applied EM-A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,355 Views
14 Pages

21 July 2020

Cropping systems are structured to maximize crop yields and increase sustainability in agricultural production. A field study was conducted to investigate different long-term cropping systems on soil organic matter and microbial communities. The crop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,282 Views
13 Pages

Efficacy of Different Herbicides on Echinochloa colona (L.) Link Control and the First Case of Its Glyphosate Resistance in Greece

  • Ilias Travlos,
  • Panagiotis Kanatas,
  • Anastasia Tsekoura,
  • Ioannis Gazoulis,
  • Panayiota Papastylianou,
  • Ioanna Kakabouki and
  • Nikolaos Antonopoulos

21 July 2020

E. colona is a C4 annual summer grass which is troublesome to major summer annual and perennial crops. Due to recent complaints by the farmers, the objectives of the present study were to evaluate the efficacy of penoxsulam, profoxydim, cycloxydim, c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,680 Views
18 Pages

Spatial Modelling of Within-Field Weed Populations; a Review

  • Gayle J. Somerville,
  • Mette Sønderskov,
  • Solvejg Kopp Mathiassen and
  • Helen Metcalfe

20 July 2020

Concerns around herbicide resistance, human risk, and the environmental impacts of current weed control strategies have led to an increasing demand for alternative weed management methods. Many new weed management strategies are under development; ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,321 Views
16 Pages

20 July 2020

In agriculture, the farming system significantly affects chemical soil properties. The organic system, which is based among others on the use of natural (organic) fertilizers, promotes increased soil contents of humus, organic C, and micronutrients....

  • Article
  • Open Access
221 Citations
14,403 Views
16 Pages

Crop Yield Prediction through Proximal Sensing and Machine Learning Algorithms

  • Farhat Abbas,
  • Hassan Afzaal,
  • Aitazaz A. Farooque and
  • Skylar Tang

20 July 2020

Proximal sensing techniques can potentially survey soil and crop variables responsible for variations in crop yield. The full potential of these precision agriculture technologies may be exploited in combination with innovative methods of data proces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,496 Views
18 Pages

20 July 2020

Since 2006, an increasing number of French vineyards have chosen to convert to organic farming. One major change in vineyard practices includes replacing chemical pesticides with copper and sulfur-based products in line with Council Regulation (EC) N...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,190 Views
12 Pages

Effect of Light Spectrum on Gas Exchange, Growth and Biochemical Characteristics of Einkorn Seedlings

  • Maria Luce Bartucca,
  • Daniele Del Buono,
  • Eleonora Ballerini,
  • Paolo Benincasa,
  • Beatrice Falcinelli and
  • Marcello Guiducci

19 July 2020

The use of Light Emitting Diode (LED) lights in microscale vegetable production is more and more widespread. In this context, the effect of light spectrum on photosynthesis, growth, shoot yield, pigment content, and nutritional status of einkorn seed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
10,688 Views
15 Pages

Sensory Attributes and Consumer Acceptability of 12 Microgreens Species

  • Francesco Caracciolo,
  • Christophe El-Nakhel,
  • Maria Raimondo,
  • Marios C. Kyriacou,
  • Luigi Cembalo,
  • Stefania De Pascale and
  • Youssef Rouphael

19 July 2020

Microgreens are gaining increasing recognition among consumers, acclaimed for their freshness and health promoting properties associated with densely fortified secondary metabolites. These immature greens enhance human diet and enrich it with sharp c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,801 Views
27 Pages

Screening the FIGS Set of Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) Germplasm for Tolerance to Terminal Heat and Combined Drought-Heat Stress

  • Noureddine El haddad,
  • Karthika Rajendran,
  • Abdelaziz Smouni,
  • Nour Eddine Es-Safi,
  • Nadia Benbrahim,
  • Rachid Mentag,
  • Harsh Nayyar,
  • Fouad Maalouf and
  • Shiv Kumar

18 July 2020

Lentil (Lens culinaris Medikus) is one of the most important cool season food legume crops grown in many countries. Seeds are typically rich in protein, fiber, prebiotic carbohydrates and minerals, such as iron and zinc. With changing climate and var...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,662 Views
15 Pages

Temporal Responses to Direct and Induced Iron Deficiency in Parietaria judaica

  • Liliana Tato,
  • Monirul Islam,
  • Tanja Mimmo,
  • Graziano Zocchi and
  • Gianpiero Vigani

18 July 2020

Parietaria judaica grows in highly calcareous environments, overcoming the low bioavailability of Fe caused by elevated pH. The aim of this work was to investigate the temporal dynamics of root exudation of P. judaica under Fe deficiency conditions....

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
10,632 Views
25 Pages

State and Progress of Andean Lupin Cultivation in Europe: A Review

  • Penelope J. Bebeli,
  • Efstathia Lazaridi,
  • Tilemachos Chatzigeorgiou,
  • Maria-José Suso,
  • Waltraud Hein,
  • Alexios A. Alexopoulos,
  • Gonçalo Canha,
  • Rob J.F. van Haren,
  • Magnús H. Jóhannsson and
  • Merlijn van den Berg
  • + 6 authors

18 July 2020

Lupinus mutabilis is an important source of protein in different Andean countries, and its use in diets, particularly those of less wealthy individuals, has been observed for thousands of years. There is an increasing demand for protein crops suitabl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
13,795 Views
37 Pages

18 July 2020

Mined phosphate rock is the largest source of phosphorus (P) for use in agriculture and agro-industry, but it also is a finite resource irregularly distributed around the world. Alternatively, waste water is a renewable source of P, available at the...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,787 Views
33 Pages

18 July 2020

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques are largely employed in several fields. As an example, NMR spectroscopy is used to provide structural and conformational information on pure systems, while affording quantitative evaluation on the number of...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,100 Views
19 Pages

Study of C, N, P and K Release from Residues of Newly Proposed Cover Crops in a Spanish Olive Grove

  • Antonio Rodríguez-Lizana,
  • Miguel Ángel Repullo-Ruibérriz de Torres,
  • Rosa Carbonell-Bojollo,
  • Manuel Moreno-García and
  • Rafaela Ordóñez-Fernández

18 July 2020

Cover crops (CC)s are increasingly employed by farmers in olive groves. Spontaneous soil cover is the most commonly used CC. Its continuous utilization changes ruderal flora. It is necessary to study new CCs. Living CCs provide C and nutrients to soi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,490 Views
15 Pages

Uniparental Inheritance of Salinity Tolerance and Beneficial Phytochemicals in Rice

  • Can Thu Huong,
  • Truong Thi Tu Anh,
  • Tran Dang Dat,
  • Tran Dang Khanh and
  • Tran Dang Xuan

17 July 2020

Salinity stress is one of the most problematic constraints to significantly reduce rice productivity. The Saltol QTL (quantitative trait locus) has been known as one among many principal genes/QTLs responsible for salinity tolerance in rice. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,938 Views
12 Pages

17 July 2020

Since water is increasingly becoming an expensive and limited resource, it is necessary to improve crop water use efficiency (WUE) to save water while maintaining high yields. The objective of this research was to evaluate the effects of moderate wat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
90 Citations
25,445 Views
41 Pages

17 July 2020

Targeted genome editing using CRISPR-Cas9 has been widely adopted as a genetic engineering tool in various biological systems. This editing technology has been in the limelight due to its simplicity and versatility compared to other previously known...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,703 Views
16 Pages

Sulfur Uptake from Fertilizer Fortified with Sulfate and Elemental S in Three Contrasting Climatic Zones

  • Fien Degryse,
  • Roslyn Baird,
  • Rodrigo C. da Silva,
  • Christopher B. Holzapfel,
  • Claudinei Kappes,
  • Monica Tysko and
  • Michael J. McLaughlin

17 July 2020

Field trials with labeled fertilizers can be used to provide information on fertilizer efficiency, residual value, and nutrient fate. We assessed the uptake from elemental S (ES) and sulfate S (SO4-S) in S-fortified monoammonium phosphate fertilizers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
15,486 Views
17 Pages

16 July 2020

According to the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), due to the increased risk of cardiovascular disease, the daily consumption of table salt should be reduced. To avoid the health consequences of iodine deficiency, it is necessar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,152 Views
18 Pages

Tradeoff between the Conservation of Soil C Stocks and Vegetation Productivity in Temperate Grasslands

  • Caroline Kohler,
  • Annette Morvan-Bertrand,
  • Jean-Bernard Cliquet,
  • Katja Klumpp and
  • Servane Lemauviel-Lavenant

16 July 2020

Grassland management affects ecosystem services such as the conservation of C stocks. The aim of this study was to analyze the relation between vegetation production and soil C stocks for a set of seven temperate grasslands of various productivity le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
6,999 Views
21 Pages

16 July 2020

The effect of six edible coatings were investigated on the ability to alleviate shrivel and extend shelf life of plums. Fruit were subjected to a simulated shipping period (−0.5 ± 2 °C and 90 ± 5% relative humidity (RH)) for f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
7,744 Views
22 Pages

Effect of Salt-Tolerant Bacterial Inoculations on Rice Seedlings Differing in Salt-Tolerance under Saline Soil Conditions

  • Rakiba Shultana,
  • Ali Tan Kee Zuan,
  • Mohd Rafii Yusop,
  • Halimi Mohd Saud and
  • Arolu Fatai Ayanda

16 July 2020

Salt-tolerant plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) could be an alternative to alleviate salinity problems in rice plants grown in the coastal areas. This study was conducted to isolate and characterize salt-tolerant PGPR and observe their effe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,664 Views
19 Pages

Improving Productivity in Integrated Fish-Vegetable Farming Systems with Recycled Fish Pond Sediments

  • Chau Thi Da,
  • Phan Anh Tu,
  • John Livsey,
  • Van Tai Tang,
  • Håkan Berg and
  • Stefano Manzoni

16 July 2020

The increasing intensification of aquaculture systems requires the development of strategies to reduce their environmental impacts such as pollution caused by the discharge of nutrient rich sediments into local water bodies. Recycling of fish pond se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,693 Views
23 Pages

16 July 2020

Phosphorus (P) deficiency is one of the major limiting factors for crop productivity. The yield of rice (Oryza sativa L.) is severely limited by phosphorus deficiency. An attempt has been made in this study to identify P deficiency responsive differe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,752 Views
20 Pages

16 July 2020

Carbonization of cage layer chicken manure (CLCM) can improve its bio-recalcitrance which might improve nitrogen (N) bioavailability in soil. However, temperature(s) to exhibit appropriate variations in the chemical makeup of the manure during carbon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,021 Views
21 Pages

Real-Time Detection of Strawberry Powdery Mildew Disease Using a Mobile Machine Vision System

  • Md Sultan Mahmud,
  • Qamar U. Zaman,
  • Travis J. Esau,
  • Young K. Chang,
  • G. W. Price and
  • Balakrishnan Prithiviraj

16 July 2020

Strawberry cropping system relies heavily on proper disease management to maintain high crop yield. Powdery mildew, caused by Sphaerotheca macularis (Wall. Ex Fries) is one of the major leaf diseases in strawberry which can cause significant yield lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,531 Views
17 Pages

Release of Medicago truncatula Gaertn. and Pisum sativum subsp. elatius (M. Bieb.) Asch. et Graebn. Seed Dormancy Tested in Soil Conditions

  • Juan Pablo Renzi,
  • Jan Brus,
  • Stergios Pirintsos,
  • László Erdős,
  • Martin Duchoslav and
  • Petr Smýkal

16 July 2020

Medicago truncatula (barrel medic) and Pisum sativum subsp. elatius (wild pea) accessions originating from variable environmental conditions in the Mediterranean basin were used to study physical seed dormancy (PY) release. The effect of soil burial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,504 Views
21 Pages

Effect of Water Stress on the Physiological Characteristics of Five Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) Cultivars

  • Iakovos Kalamartzis,
  • George Menexes,
  • Pantazis Georgiou and
  • Christos Dordas

16 July 2020

Water stress in one of the most important abiotic stresses that affects the productivity of many crop species worldwide. In addition, the climate change creates new challenges for crop adaptation especially as water resources become limited and the i...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
14,713 Views
17 Pages

Plant Responses to UV Blocking Greenhouse Covering Materials: A Review

  • Nikolaos Katsoulas,
  • Anastasia Bari and
  • Chryssoula Papaioannou

15 July 2020

Pure polyethylene (PE) is enriched with several additives to make it a smart application material in protected cultivation, as a cover material for either greenhouses or screenhouses. When this material completely or partially absorbs ultraviolet (UV...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,282 Views
14 Pages

15 July 2020

This study aimed to explore the suitable light quality condition for ex vitro acclimation of M9 apple plantlets. Light quality treatments were set as followed; monochromatic LEDs (red (R), green (G), blue (B)) and polychromatic LEDs (R:B = 7:3, 8:2 a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,895 Views
18 Pages

Host Specificity of Endophytic Fungi from Stem Tissue of Nature Farming Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum Mill.) in Japan

  • Khondoker Mohammad Golam Dastogeer,
  • Yutaro Oshita,
  • Michiko Yasuda,
  • Makoto Kanasugi,
  • Eri Matsuura,
  • Qicong Xu and
  • Shin Okazaki

15 July 2020

To understand the distribution of the cultivable fungal community in plant tissues from nature farming tomato plants, we sampled plants of seven different tomato cultivars and recovered 1742 fungal isolates from 1895 stem tissues sampled from three s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
112 Citations
9,019 Views
20 Pages

15 July 2020

Coatings offer a means to control nanoparticle (NP) size, regulate dissolution, and mitigate runoff when added to crops through soil. Simultaneously, coatings can enhance particle binding to plants and provide an additional source of nutrients, makin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,435 Views
12 Pages

15 July 2020

Soybean (Glycine max L. Merrill) is one of the most important crops worldwide. In several European countries such as Germany, soybean cultivation is not traditional and as such remains to be optimized. One option to increase soybean production is to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,946 Views
10 Pages

Which Agronomic Practices Increase the Yield and Quality of Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)? A Systematic Review Protocol

  • Georgia Ntatsi,
  • Anestis Karkanis,
  • Fanny Tran,
  • Dimitrios Savvas and
  • Pietro P. M. Iannetta

14 July 2020

The common bean (Phaseolous vulgaris L.) is a grain legume functionally characterized by its capacity for symbiotic of biological nitrogen fixation. As such, it does not demand the application of synthetic nitrogenous fertilizer and can offer environ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,457 Views
21 Pages

Response of Broccoli Transplants to LED Light during Short and Long-Term Storage

  • Renata Wojciechowska,
  • Edward Kunicki,
  • Olga Długosz-Grochowska and
  • Anna Kołton

14 July 2020

In broccoli production a big challenge is preparation of seedlings, which must be delivered during a strictly defined period to vegetable producers that are often in distant places. The goal of the present study was to investigate the response of 5-w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,200 Views
18 Pages

14 July 2020

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether combining plastic-covered ridge and furrow planting (RF) and supplemental irrigation based on measuring soil moisture (SIMSM) can increase the grain yield and water use efficiency (WUE) of wheat (T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,190 Views
14 Pages

Effect of Oxytetracycline and Chlortetracycline on Bacterial Community Growth in Agricultural Soils

  • Vanesa Santás-Miguel,
  • Manuel Arias-Estévez,
  • Montserrat Díaz-Raviña,
  • María José Fernández-Sanjurjo,
  • Esperanza Álvarez-Rodríguez,
  • Avelino Núñez-Delgado and
  • David Fernández-Calviño

14 July 2020

Toxicity on soil bacterial community growth caused by the antibiotics oxytetracycline (OTC) and chlortetracycline (CTC) was studied in 22 agricultural soils after 1, 8 and 42 incubation days. The leucine incorporation method was used with this aim, e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,505 Views
20 Pages

Biomechanical Properties and Agro-Morphological Traits for Improved Lodging Resistance in Ethiopian Teff (Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trottor) Accessions

  • Muluken Bayable,
  • Atsushi Tsunekawa,
  • Nigussie Haregeweyn,
  • Takayoshi Ishii,
  • Getachew Alemayehu,
  • Mitsuru Tsubo,
  • Enyew Adgo,
  • Asaminew Tassew,
  • Wataru Tsuji and
  • Tsugiyuki Masunaga
  • + 1 author

14 July 2020

Susceptibility to lodging is a major constraint on teff production in Ethiopia, but efforts to develop lodging-resistant cultivars have not been successful. We studied the mechanical properties of teff culms and associated agro-morphological traits i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,840 Views
18 Pages

14 July 2020

Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascade is involved in the regulation of a series of biological processes in organisms, which are composed of MAPKKKs, MAPKKs, and MAPKs. Although genome-wide analyses of it has been well described in some spec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
5,478 Views
19 Pages

14 July 2020

Arsenic (As) is a highly toxic metalloid for all forms of life including plants. Rice is the main food source for different countries worldwide, although it can take up high amounts of As in comparison with other crops, showing toxic profiles such as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,239 Views
16 Pages

14 July 2020

Cultivated crops are expected to be less stress tolerant than their wild relatives, leading to efforts to mine wild relatives for traits to increase crop tolerance. However, empirical tests of this expectation often confound tolerance with plant vigo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
196 Citations
16,427 Views
19 Pages

14 July 2020

A machine vision system for detecting apples in orchards was developed. The system was designed to be used in harvesting robots and is based on a YOLOv3 algorithm with special pre- and post-processing. The proposed pre- and post-processing techniques...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,752 Views
18 Pages

13 July 2020

Aims: Biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) has been reported as an emerging technology to control soil nitrifier activity for effective N-utilization in cropping systems. Brachiaria have been reported to suppress nitrifier populations by releasi...

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